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    Descartes, RenÉ
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    DESCARTES, RENE r na dakart , Lat. Renatus Cartesius...mathematician, and scientist, b. La Haye. Descartes methodology was a major influence in...and philosophy to the modern era. Life Descartes was educated in the Jesuit College at...
     
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    Spinoza, Baruch
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...also studied Latin and the works of Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, and other writers of...rational, and monist. He shares with Descartes an intensely mathematical appreciation...and evident to mans mind. Whereas for Descartes mind and body are different substances...
     
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    Innate Ideas
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...important occurrence of a doctrine of innate ideas, not directly based on Plato, is in the work of Rene Descartes. Among the ideas Descartes took to be innate were the existence of the self: cogito ergo sum I think, therefore I am, the existence...
     
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    Skepticism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Montaigne , Pierre Charron , and Blaise Pascal . For Rene Descartes skepticism was a methodology that allowed him to arrive at...R. H. Popkin, The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (rev. ed. 1968); C. L. Stough, Greek Skepticism...
     
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    Science
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...role in the development of scientific theories, and of Rene Descartes, who held that the universe is a mechanical system that can...great and the acceptance of the mechanistic philosophy of Descartes and others so widespread that the corpuscular philosophy was...
     

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